copenhagen consensus

via green hat journal:

check out the copenhagen consensus, which strives to direct the world's social efforts. from their website:

Copenhagen Consensus is based on the aim to improve prioritization of limited means. The world is faced with a countless number of challenges such as diseases, environmental degradation, armed conflicts and financial instability. Copenhagen Consensus takes a new and critical-analytical approach to assessing the effects of international opportunities for solving the challenges.

the 10 challenges that they will focus on are:

1. Climate Change
   
2. Communicable Diseases
   
3. Conflicts
   
4. Education
   
5. Financial Instability
   
6. Governance and Corruption
   
7. Malnutrition and Hunger
   
8. Population: Migration
   
9. Sanitation and Water
   
10. Subsidies and Trade Barriers

their meeting will be taking place soon (24th-28th), so hopefully, some interesting ideas will be presented...

plus, it'll let jagdish bhagwati show what he's got at the danish discotheques:



UPDATE: like an idiot, i forgot to put a link for the copenhagen consensus when i first posted this entry. that has since been rectified.